2005 we did the Moonwalk again and this time my husband joined us. He too wore a decorated bra! The three of us crossed the finish line in about 6 hours. These 3 Moonwalks had raised quite a lot of money for breast cancer and I was very proud to be involved.
A highlight of 2005 was another holiday win, to Austria again for a week, but this time to Zell am See. We were given a suite at the Hotel Romantic, just a short walk away from the lake. My white cell count had risen, my remission was ending, but I went on holiday and had a great time. We took a cable car up the Schmittenhohe Mountain and it took us 5 hours to talk back down. After that walk I could only walk or climb the stairs at the hotel with difficulty as my muscles had ceased up. We took a boat out on the lake, and rode the largest funicular railway in Europe (the world?) to the Mooser Dam. We ate strudel and drank hot chocolate with cream. However, I was not as careful as I usually am and one night was very sick and unwell, probably from something I had eaten. Like all our holiday wins it was wonderful, and not just because we didn't have to pay for a thing!
Treatment started just after Christmas and was FC again. However, this time my body did not accept the treatment so well and after 2 cycles (in 2006) I was in hospital with Septacaemia and I was very ill. My daughter had planned to visit from her home in France, and instead of the shopping trip we had planned, my daughter and 2 granddaughters were visiting me in hospital.
It seemed FC had not worked well this time and so we planned to recuperate for a few months and then start Campath in July. Campath made me feel sick, gave me fevers and I coughed my way through the 11 weeks of Campath until my doctor said 'enough!. I had wanted to continue to make sure we got all the CLL, but pneumonia put me back in the hospital. After my recovery my counts were very low for a long while.
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